Consulting Services
We provide a range of best practice project management services based on many years of global experience.
Project Management Consulting
We guarantee that you will deliver more successful projects, programmes and portfolios as a result of our expertise. We don’t give you ‘cut and paste’ solutions:
we make sure that your needs are always met.
Being at the right level of project management maturity delivers real tangible and quantifiable benefits.
Every organisation can benefit from knowing exactly where it is right now in terms of project management maturity and using this information to determine the optimal level of maturity and how to get there.
We are pleased to be part of the AXELOS Consulting Partner program and as part of this we offer P3M3 maturity assessments. The Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity Model (P3M3) provides a framework for organisations to assess and benchmark their current performance and effectively develop plans for improvement. We offer facilitated self-assessments, diagnostic assessments, and certification assessments depending on your needs.
Our clients appreciate the ease with which they can understand the professional in-depth assessments report contents, and implement the prioritised recommendations.
Project Manager Competency Assessment
This assessment gives great insights into the strengths and weaknesses of your people and contributes to your overall talent management strategy.
This Assessment reviews the competency of individual project management practitioners across all levels; From project administrators to project managers, programme managers and portfolio managers.
Our bespoke Assessment tool is aligned with international best practice in this area, and is based on the Project Manager Competency Development Framework (PMCDF) and the Talent Triangle from the Project Management Institute (PMI). It uses both a self-assessment and a peer assessment to give a complete picture of a practitioner’s current levels of competency.
Using this review, we can provide individual and personalised recommendations for professional development The tool can also be used as part of the recruitment process to ensure you recruit the best people.
Project Manager Methodology
Research clearly states that organisations with an appropriate and defined project management methodology significantly out-perform those that don’t.
Have you got a defined and appropriate project management methodology?
Or do you make things up as you go along?
We have years of experience in helping clients all around the world develop, improve, tailor and introduce appropriate methodologies.
Whether you prefer a Waterfall or Agile approach, work in IT or construction, are small or large, complex or simple, we have the methodology and supporting documents that are right for you.
We will work with your existing processes, augment or refine them, introduce missing parts as necessary, and work with your team to ensure the result works for you.
We will then work with you on the change management process to ensure the new methodology is fully embedded and adopted for best practice.
Project Review and Health Check
- Do you want to know how well your projects are performing now?
- And/or how they may perform in future?
- Do you need a project re-assigned?
We have the tools to fully assess how well a project is currently performing and how well it may perform in the future.
You get to choose the level of detail:
- High level project review
- In-depth Independent Quality Assurance Audit (IQA)
- Complete project health-check.
Each of these can be done at any point in a project life-cycle and provides valuable information about the state of the project and its likelihood of success.
The review can be initiated in response to issues, or be regularly scheduled as part of the project lifecycle and scope.
The review will highlight areas of strength and weakness, and compare these to established international best practice and our own global experience to determine what areas of improvement exist.
Project Review and Health Check
- Do you have a project that needs to get back on track?
- Or a project that you want to set up for success, right from the start?
- Or may-be you have a project, but do not have the resources to deliver it?
We will bring our skills and experience to your project no matter what stage or state it is in and make sure it is delivered successfully.
FAQs
What are the main benefits of Project Management?
Appropriate and professional project management practices means that your projects are more successful, your clients are happy, your reputation is enhanced, and ultimately, your business is more successful. It doesnt matter what the size or complexity of your projects is, there is a better way to manage them with professional project management.
What would be a challenge for PMO?
The biggest challenge facing a PMO of any sort is proving the benefits and value it brings to the organisation and its strategic success. Setting up the right PMO for your organisation is incredibly important in making successful. Once it is up and running it is so important to make all of your stakeholder aware of the work you do and the value you bring. Make yourself indispensable!!